Barware’s Emmanuel lead designer at the
firm MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic says that the company is in the possibility of switching the game from its current monthly subscription-based business model for free-to-find play.
In an interview with Gamest said lead designer Emmanuel that the MMO is ever evolving, and recognizes the need Beware us the changes.
The MMO market is very dynamic, and we must dynamic as well, said Lusinchi.
Unless the people happy with have they are constantly demanding updates, new modes and situations. So are looking at free-to-play, but I cannot tell you in great detail.
We must be flexible and adapt to what's going on.
Of course it would be foolish not to look at Beware for the free-to-play model. Even if they have not publicly said it is also considering changes to Blizzard World of War craft at some point. Companies such as Sony Online Entertainment and Turbine have moved most of their games to free-to-play model.
Star Wars: The Old Republic in December of last year launched, attracting 1.7 million paying subscribers by February. Last month, Electronic Arts confirmed that the game had lost 400,000 subscribers, and fell to 1.3 million paying users.
